U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 1957

Humble Oil & Refining Co. v. Federal Power Commission

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · Decided May 17, 1957 · Brown

244 F.2d 315; 1957 U.S. App. LEXIS 3088 (Federal Reporter, Second Series)

Counsel

W. J. Merrill, Rex Baker, Carl Illig, Nelson Jones, Houston, Tex., Bernard A. Foster, Jr., Washington, D. C., Bernard J. Caillouet, Charles Janvier, New Orleans, La., William H. Holloway, Houston, Tex., Ross, Marsh & Foster, Washington, D. C., of counsel, for petitioner., W. Russell Gorman and C. Louis Knight, Attys., Lambert McAllister, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Willard W. Gatchell, Gen. Counsel, Howard E. Wahrenbrock, Sol., Federal Power Commission, Washington, D. C., for respondent.

Cases that cite this one

1 later published case cites this decision.

Deep South Oil Company of Texas v. Federal Power Commission (5th Cir. 1957)

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Opinion of the Court

PER CURIAM.

These six cases which were consolidated for all purposes by order of Court came to be heard on petitions for review of six orders of the Federal Power Commission and were argued by counsel. Upon consideration whereof, and of the briefs filed by the parties, it is

Ordered and adjudged by this Court that the petitions for review in these cases be, and they are hereby, dismissed on the authority of Humble Oil & Refining Co. v. Federal Power Commission, 5 Cir., 236 F.2d 819, certiorari denied, 352 U.S. 967, 77 S.Ct. 354, 1 L.Ed.2d 321.

Dismissed.

Dissenting Opinion

BROWN, Judge,

dissents for the reasons set forth at length in his dissent, Magnolia Petroleum Co. v. Federal Power Commission, 5 Cir., 236 F.2d 785 at page 793, and particularly Part II, Suspension Cases.

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